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I shall read one more document into the records, 1195-PS.
You will find it in your document book on Page 423.
On 9th January, 1946, four lines were read here from the
second section. The time has now come to read it in full:
"Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, Operational
Staff,
Section L (IV/Qu), No. 00630/41 Top Secret,
Commanders only;
Fuehrer's headquarters, 12.4.1941.
Reference: OKW/L (IV/Qu), Nr. 4434/41 Top Secret,
Commanders only, of 3rd April, 1941.
I. PROVISIONAL DIRECTIVES FOR THE PARTITION OF
YUGOSLAVIA.
The Fuehrer has issued the following directions for the
partition of Yugoslavia:
(1) Former territory of Styria and Carinthia:
The territory of the former Styria, extended to the
south by a strip of about 90 kilometers in breadth and
10 to 15 kilometers in depth, will go to Gau Styria.
The northern part of Carthinia, with a borderline
running South only as far as the river Sava but north
of Ljubljana, according to the attached O.K.H. map, is
to become part of Carinthia.
The High Command of the Army (O.K.H.) is to hand over
the territory occupied by the German troops to the
competent Gauleiter, sub-area by sub-area, as soon as
the pacification of the country permits.
The handing over of the territory occupied by the
Italians will be prepared for by a letter from the
Fuehrer to the Duce and carried out under direct orders
from the Foreign Office. Until that time no measures
whatever
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are to be taken from the German side. (Teleram O.K.H.-
General Headquarters Abt. Kr. Verw. A. Ob. Kdo. 2 I,
No. 801/41, Top Secret, is hereby rendered
ineffective.)
2) The territory beyond the river Mur (Uebermur-
Gebiet):
The territory beyond the river Mur borders closely upon
Hungary, conforming with the historic boundary. A later
colonisation of the German population living in the
North-western part of this territory has been taken
into consideration. The handing over of this territory
to the Hungarians will be regulated by the High Command
of the Army.
(3) Banat:
The territory from the point where the river Drava cuts
the Hungarian boundary to the confluence of the River
Tisa with the Danube is to go to Hungary. The territory
east of the Tisa will be at first under German
protection, as will the territory south of the Danube
and east of the general line: confluence of the river
Morava and the Danube-Pozarevac-Petrovac-Boljavac-
Knjazevec-Kalina. This territory includes the Bor
copper mines and the adjoining coal district in the
South-east. The above line is considered as the basic
and provisional demarcation line. At first, German
military government under the High Command of the Army
is to be established, under the order jof O.K.H.
(4) Southern Serbia:
The territory inhabited by Bulgarian Macedonians goes
to Bulgaria, in conformity with the ethnographical
boundary. Preliminary delimitation of the frontier,
from the military viewpoint, will be carried out by the
High Command of the Army, which will prepare the
handing over to Bulgaria.
(5) Old Serbia:
The territory of old Serbia will be placed under German
military administration under the High Command of the
Army.
(6) Croatia:
Croatia becomes an independent State within its
ethnographical boundaries. There will be no
interference on the part of Germany with its internal
policy.
(7) Remaining territories including Bosnia and
Montenegro:
The political organisation of these territories will be
left to Italy. Here also the restoration of an
independent state of Montenegro can be considered.
II. The Demarcation of Boundaries:
(1) Where the demarcation of boundaries has not been
laid down in Part I, it will be carried out through the
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces in agreement with
the Foreign Office, the Plenipotentiary for the Four
Year Plan, and the Reich Minister of the Interior.
The Operational Staff of the Supreme Command Armed
Forces (L IV Headquarters) is the executive organ for
the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces.
(2) The High Command of the Army will forward as soon
as possible to the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
its military recommendations relative to the drawing up
of boundaries outside the territory of the protectorate
South of the Danube, where this has not been already
laid down by the Fuehrer.
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(3) The War Production Board of the O.K.W. will forward
as soon as possible to the Operational Staff (Section
L) its recommendations regarding the boundaries of the
territory of the protectorate South of the Danube (Part
I, paragraph (3)).
(4) As far as the Italians are concerned, the tactical
boundaries between the armies hold good in the
meantime.
(Signed) Chief of the O.K.W. Keitel."
This document, signed by the defendant Keitel, utterly
refutes the mendacious statement of the non-participation of
the O.K.W. in the political side of the Fascist plan or
conspiracy. The German generals, as a body, were not merely
an obedient tool in Hitler's hands.

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